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Flagship ZDF German public television, Germany’s equivalent to CBS or BBC, reported on Hurricane Sandy yesterday evening on it famous “heute journal” news show. I was watching it live (which is very rare for me) and I couldn’t believe what I heard. What follows is the video link of the broadcast. Just listen here to what the ZDF […]

Yesterday evening I watched a special report on Hurricane Sandy on Phoenix public television. Meteorologist Dr. Karsten Brandt. (Photo source: donnerwetter.de) Phoenix invited meteorologist Dr. Karsten Brandt as an expert. Brandt is co-managing director of donnerwetter.de. He was asked by the Phoenix news achorman if we should expect more and bigger storms due to global […]

It used to be that weather extremes were “proof of man-made warming”. But because that argument didn’t seem to sway anyone, the warmists have taken it a level higher: now even the storm’s path is proof. This is how desperate they’ve become. Thirty years ago, such people would have been committed to a nuthouse. Chart […]

As a resident, taxpayer and contributor to the European Union, I am truly humbled and deeply honoured as one of the first Nobel Peace Prize climate websites. As most of you know, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in Oslo recently announced its decision to award it to the EU. That makes NoTricksZone one of the first Nobel […]

Record snow and cold Arctic air have blasted across Central Europe this weekend. FOCUS magazine here for example writes that up to 15 cm of snow blanketed parts of Germany, wreaking havoc on travel. Hat tip DirkH. Just a week ago, Europeans were basking in near summer-like temperatures. But over the course of one week, the […]

Here’s a must read on the latest developments of the increasingly disgraced Michael Mann, winner co-contributor to the 2007 Nobel Peace Price. Excerpt from Mann’s (erroneous) legal complaint against National Review and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Source: http://legaltimes.typepad.com/files/michael-mann-complaint.pdf National Review here now writes Mann has a lot of corrections to make: But, behind the scenes, […]

This year’s Elevate Festival is now taking place in Graz, Austria from (24 – 28 October) and features a program of discussions, lectures and screenings designed to bring attention to social, environmental and political issues. Rahmstorf joins Occupy Wall Street, Noam Chomsky and eco-genocide lawyer Polly Higgins at this year’s Elevate Festival. (Photo source: University of Copenhagen, licensed under the […]

It seems the more Dr. Michael E. Mann opens his mouth, the more he makes himself look like a total jackass. To make things worse, even his own lawyer somehow convinced him to file a baseless lawsuit, and so will end up raking in poor Mike’s money. Today the affair has become a comedy that […]

The dead silence we’ve seen on the climate issue during the 2012 Presidential campaign is getting a strong reaction in Germany. Today I’m presenting 2 short views on this. One from a German skeptic, and one from a devout treehugger/climate crisis believer. Ulli Kulke of DIE WELT At his DIE WELT site, veteran journalist Ulli […]

Tradeshows are important business events for all branches of industry. The mood at a trade show is often a good barometer of how business is doing in a particular branch. Solar cemetery? The solar boom dies. (Photo source: US Government) If times are tough, then one can expect to hear a bit of grumbling from those […]

A short break from climate science and policy… The last of the 2012 presidential debates is now in the history books; the German media react. Needless to say the German media are heavily biased towards Obama, and just Obama showing up is enough to declare him the winner. And they all declared him the winner today. […]

Germany’s energy feed-in act forces power companies to buy up green electricity from wind and solar producers at exhorbitant prices and guarantees the green energy producers fat profits. Windparks are paid even power that doesn’t get delivered. (Photo by: Philip May. GNU-Lizenz für freie Dokumentation,) But what happens when the sun shines and the wind blows too […]

COMMENTARY Many of you by now are aware of the notorious, creepy 3.5-minute video of NYU modern-eugenics-nutjob S. Matthew Liao made by a Huffington Post correspondent, see below. H/t: Tom Nelson. In the video, the psychopathic professor resurrects the darkest science of our past and proposes a series of methods for altering humans so that they fulfil the […]

To European readers, don’t let the warm balmy weather we are now getting fool you. This is just evil Mother Nature luring us into a trap. She is about to slam us with a cold blast. Frosty temperature forecast for Germany for 29 Oct 2012. Source: http://www.ncep.noaa.gov/. The 15-day weather simulations are beginning to converge […]

Just watch the video. I smell a landslide coming in November. http://hotair.com/video-obama-stimulus-flop-paid-workers-for-playing-cards/ That’s about how it was back in the old communist East Germany days, wasn’t it? And here’s a list of more, just for the record. http://www.climatedepot.com/Complete-List-of-Obamas-TaxpayerBacked-Green-Energy-Failures

Germany’s English-language online news site The Local here also features Spiegel’s report on weather extreme hype by reinsurer Munich RE. Munich RE has no proof, scientists claim. Fears based on quasi science. (Graphic source: http://en.wikipedia/Munich_Re The local writes: Scientists decry insurer’s extreme weather claims German insurance companies stand accused of putting the wind up American […]

Climate-change bilking by Big Insurance is slowly but surely being exposed by the media. The noose around the climate change scam is tightening. Reinsurers are cashing in by spreading dubious fears of weather extremes. Photo source: Tomas Castelazo, GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version. Spiegel reporter Axel Bojanowski has a piece today […]

Surely most readers here can remember the furious reaction of environmentalists, media, and alarmist scientists when George W. Bush refused to sign on to the Kyoto Treaty in 2001. He was immediately labelled the dumbest man on the planet when it came to climate science for that refusal. Later, a good part of Al Gore’s […]

Although the silence that has spread over the mainstream media and “climate community” has been deafening, skeptic blogs on the other hand have been stepping in earnestly to inform the public on what the climate is really doing. The blogosphere has been ablaze over the last few days. In Germany the media has been dead silent […]